Literature: History & Criticism

In a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses over twenty texts from various African regions and periods. The works discussed here range fro...

This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed...

In this compilation, the authors suggest a temporal model interpretation for the stele from the Scythian Senior Trekhbratnyi barrow (IVIII centurie...

The Copper Garden: New Zealand Novels is a book of literary criticism and review about Aotearoa New Zealand fiction over the past one hundred fifty...

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closetand how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, an...

Cicatrices provides an understanding of the mood in Central American fiction over the last five years. Many recent novels and short stories are aes...

Through its unique kaleidoscopic lens, this book analyzes the work of Algeria''''s first postcolonial woman writer to publish a novel in Arabic, Ah...

From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid chan...

Mr Hoopdriver is an overworked Londoner who spends most every day servilely waiting on customers at his job as a draper's assistant. When it comes ...

In this latest collection of poems and verse-essays, Christopher Norris revisits many of the topics for which he is best known as a philosopher, li...

An illustrated guide to one of the most enduring masterworks of world literatureWritten in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki...

Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history....

Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet...